Les Misérables: 10th anniversary concert (sketches for my absolute favourite recorded production)
Other musical theatre art: Sondheim's PASSION | JCS | Les Mis
Ian McKellen as Salieri and Tim Curry as Mozart in the original 1980 Broadway production of Amadeus
I used to joke that the reason I had to leave professional theater was because they found out I knew nothing about Les Mis. This was relevant at the time as everyone at the theater I worked at did find this out when the trailer for the Tom Hooper film came out, and ROUNDED on me.
And I am here to tell you that this is apparently still true, as somehow in the last ten years I forgot and have just relearned that the musical was written by these French fellows named Claude-Michel Schönberg & Alain Boublil and not ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER. How did I get this into my head! How was the thought “god this hardly even sounds like Andrew Lloyd Webber!” not a BIGGER CLUE. I am insensible, AND, insensible.
In good news though the incidentally rather French stuffing I just made with chestnuts and Brussels sprouts and a French ~batard~ loaf turned out exceptional. You stew the chestnuts in milk and stock and then use that to moisten the bread; positively infused.
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Everything old is new again!
[Colm Wilkinson voice] WHo am I?
Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we’re bound to others. Past and present. And by each crime and every kindness, rebirth our future.
CLOUD ATLAS (2012) dir. the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer
